Cup Of Coffee

I see that there’s been a pretty major security alert in Birmingham, which is pretty much on my doorstep (about 20 minutes away). It seems that there were several suspect packages and a warning before-hand. The packages were blown up in controlled explosions but they were found to be harmless – however one was a box with wires and a… Read more →

US Smartphone site Mobile Gadget News has suffered a bit of late and has been knocked off line for quite a considerable length of time. However, it’s now almost back to full force. The forum is restored and they’re online again. There’s just some portal and blogs stuff to do. Running a website – a biggy – can be a… Read more →

After this roller-coaster of a week it’s great to see the weekend in sight. To ease you into the weekend I’ve got my usual “robbed from B3ta.com” links.. ———— At school the rumour always went that if you put mains voltage across a sausage, the current passing through would cause it to cook. Twelve years later we tried it in… Read more →

I feel I have to do a quick post about the explosions in London. There’s obviously lots of news coming out right now about who is responsible etc – it would appear to be a co-ordinated attack by terrorists, similar to that of September 11th. Unbelievably it appears that Paul – one of my mates was pictured coming away from… Read more →

So yay. London will be hosting to 2012 Olympic Games. There’s a few things to watch out for though, because todays events leave you with mixed emotions. What started as a peaceful protest by Live 8 has been royally f**ked up by a hardcore of nutters. The picture on the right is from Sky News. This guy is smashing up… Read more →

I get so much stuff through the email. Most of it I just can’t keep up with .. or post.. I’ve got a few bits and bobs here – they’re not quite work safe, but they’re no worse than a copy of The Sun! First up though, I’ve got this 3500 Watt Generator for sale. If anyone is interested please… Read more →

Say what you will about the British people. We moan when it’s hot, we moan when it’s cold, we moan when it’s wet, we moan when it’s too dry. We love to moan, we love to complain, we hate giving ourselves a pat on the back or telling someone else that they’re great. We like Fish and Chips and we… Read more →

“I’ve entered my local newspapers Baby of the Year competition with my photoshopped son, Juanzo – well, blow me…they printed it today.” Huzzah! We’re giggling like loons. We also want you, dear readers, to vote for him so he can win the coveted prize. http://www.voteforjuanzo.blogspot.com/ —————————————— This one is hard to describe – a chap (almost certainly Dutch) has rigged… Read more →

Smoking. It’s not big, or clever. You stink like crap and you’ll get some horrible fatal disease one day. You’ll come up with feable excuses like, “It’s no worse than drinking alcohol” or “I like it, it calms me down, sod off!”, to mask the fact that you’re actually hopelessly addicted to the things. I know what you’re thinking though..… Read more →

Oh dear.. there’s me reading about the Russian tennis babes in Wimbledon, when I stumble across this picture. It’s lovely Maria Sharapova, and she’s one very nice lady. This picture is from Sports Illustrated and I, like any red-blooded mail, was thinking, “Hello lady..” Then I read the text alongside.. “Sharapova poses in this 2002 photo shoot. Still a month… Read more →

Getting drunk, very very drunk. Well, what else can you do in this weather ? When people invite you to their barbeques and ply you with free lager, it’s not too surprising that I tend to fall off the wagon! :) Saturday was fairly warm – a nice 30 degrees C. I spent most of the day looking for Fathers… Read more →

This weekend I have been mostly drinking lager. Well, actually… no. I’m actually (horror of horrors) cutting back slightly on the beer. I live in Lichfield, and we’re actually famed for being the best recycling council in the UK. There’s a couple of green boxes – one for bottles, jars, cans and stuff. The other for paper and card. These… Read more →

I see that the government are pressing ahead with their Road Charging Scheme.. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13367064,00.html Wait a minute.. I pay 170 quid a year for road tax at the minute. I do 70 miles a day getting here, which is 350 miles a week – with say 50 miles at the weekend. That’s 20,800 miles a year. If, according to the… Read more →

I see that the government are pressing ahead with their Road Charging Scheme.. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13367064,00.html Wait a minute.. I pay 170 quid a year for road tax at the minute. I do 70 miles a day getting here, which is 350 miles a week – with say 50 miles at the weekend. That’s 20,800 miles a year. If, according to the… Read more →

Actually I’m not a big fan of horses. They don’t like my “Why the long face?” jokes… anyway.. this morning I was listening to the Chris Moyles Show and the excellent dudes at DiffusionOnline have made him another crazy tune to play out. It’s all due to this “I Love Horses” magazine which isn’t (I’m told) anything to do with… Read more →

Actually I’m not a big fan of horses. They don’t like my “Why the long face?” jokes… anyway.. this morning I was listening to the Chris Moyles Show and the excellent dudes at DiffusionOnline have made him another crazy tune to play out. It’s all due to this “I Love Horses” magazine which isn’t (I’m told) anything to do with… Read more →

Normally I’m not too annoyed by TV adverts. Yes, that damned frog (right) needs shooting – sure, but to moan about the KFC commercial because it features some people with mouths full? Now that’s a bit sad really.. There’s more examples of complaints on the Advertisting Standards website… however, we’re quite pleased to see that yet again the Crazy Frog… Read more →

We hate the Frog. He’s at number 1 and it’s all thanks to some git at Jamster (the ringtone gits) stealing some sound-sample from the internet and adding some graphics. Now it looks like he’s planning to make moves on number 10…. If you’ve in HMV or Virgin and you see someone reaching for the CD Single of Axel F… Read more →

Being the tight-wad I am, I’ve decided (still) not to get Sky+. We’ve got Sky TV at home. It’s all very good, but I’m not heavily into sports and I rarely get time to watch a movie. Because of this we don’t have the “full” package but just the “Sky Family” package at about 19 quid a month. Sky get… Read more →

Stop it now.. Stop the world. I wanna get off. It’s all gone so badly wrong and everyone is bloody crazy. I’ve had enough. Reason? See the picture.. Read more →

As I write there are 987 people browsing CoolSmartPhone.com. That’s one big fat figure. Now, way back in December you may have noticed that I was asking you guys to splash the cash a bit to help out with the site. It costs roughly 75 quid a month to host an entire dedicated server for this monster, then there’s the… Read more →

Ohhh dear dear dear… Welcome to the world little T-Jay, Amani and Lita. Your mothers are all about 14 years old and are living together in a shared council house rent-free… and they’re all sisters…. and the “mother” of these three teenagers says… “I don’t care what people say about me.” “I blame the schools – sex education for young… Read more →